Though Ford won’t discuss title or plot lest he divulge secrets too early and bore himself along the way, he provides snippets of insight. He wrote the screenplay himself, finishing it in September. It’s an adaptation of a novel for which he bought the rights, not a well-known book and all the better for that. At this point at least, he has little interest in taking on material pre-loaded with audience expectations. He has changed the title and made considerable revisions to the story. As planned, the film is in two parts, the first faithful to the original material, and the second, completely new.

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Unlike most directors, whose schedules and deadlines are project-based, Ford must work around an intractable fashion calendar. His narrow shooting window runs from Sept. 15 through December. If for some reason the film doesn’t come together in time, his next opportunity is the same time, next year. “I only need six weeks,” he says, noting that editing will be more flexible; he can set up a room in London. He shot A Single Man in 21 days: “I paid for it myself.”

Ford also spoke about the challenges of adapting a book for film:

“A book is a book; a film is a film. They are totally different things. Sometimes things are subtle in a book because there’s an inner monologue with the character, and turning it into a film, you don’t have that inner monologue—unless you do, which I don’t love.…You have to have something personal; you have to take what speaks to you about a book and amplify that. It’s impressionism, in a way."

Check out a video of Ford's fashion show last night in L.A., AFTER THE JUMP...

The line will be arriving this fall and will include a luxury cleanser, moisturizer, purifying mud mask, eye treatment, concealer, and bronzing gel. The launch will also add two new scents to Ford's Private Blend fragrance collection.

Check out more mesmerizing photos from the campaign, AFTER THE JUMP...

Eagle Scout Zach Wahls and over 11,000 other Americans are calling on Intel to stop donating money to the Boy Scouts of America: "Until the Boy Scouts of America removes this hurtful policy that is
inconsistent with its own principles, they do not deserve the financial
backing of companies that strive for workplace equality -- especially
innovators like Intel." Lend Wahls a hand by joining the Change.org campaign.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fully expects the court to hear a case on the Defense of Marriage Act in the very near future. "I think it’s most likely that we will have that issue before the court toward the end of the current term," she said.

Meanwhile, the latest edition of Perspectives on Psychological Science reports on a study showing that, yes, prejudice can cause depression: "This depression caused by prejudice -- which the researchers call deprejudice
-- can occur at many levels. In the classic case, prejudice causes
depression at the societal level (e.g., Nazis' prejudice causing Jews'
depression), but this causal chain can also occur at the interpersonal
level (e.g., an abuser's prejudice causing an abusee's depression), or
even at the intrapersonal level, within a single person (e.g., a man's
prejudice against himself causing his depression)."